Editing Kilkenny (section)

===Community===
====Awards====
Kilkenny was named as the Academy of Urbanism European Great Town for 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/awards.htm |title=Academy of Urbanism |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119212642/http://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/awards.htm |archive-date=2008-01-19 }}</ref> The Academy Chairman, John Thompson, said: "it is great to have an Irish town coming through in this year's awards, especially Kilkenny which is coming to terms with economic growth without losing its wonderful character and humour". Kilkenny won the [[Irish Tidy Towns Competition]] in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tidytowns.ie/u_documents/The_Tidy_Towns_of_Ireland.pdf|title=Irish Tidy Towns Competition| url-status=dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160419221202/http://tidytowns.ie/u_documents/The_Tidy_Towns_of_Ireland.pdf |archive-date=2016-04-19}}</ref>

====Twinned cities====
Kilkenny is twinned with [[Moret-sur-Loing]] in France,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ville-moret-sur-loing.com/la-mairie/liens-divers.html|title=Liens – Site de la ville de Moret-sur-loing|first=Mairie de Moret-sur-loing – O.|last=Suty|website=Ville-moret-sur-loing.com|access-date=23 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421202357/http://www.ville-moret-sur-loing.com/la-mairie/liens-divers.html|archive-date=21 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Formigine]] in [[Italy]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/281925/date-confirmed-for-kilkenny-s-official-twinning-with-italian-town.html|title=Date confirmed for Kilkenny's official twinning with Italian town|work=[[Kilkenny People]]|first=Sam|last=Matthews|date=15 November 2017|access-date=15 June 2020|archive-date=15 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615110146/https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/281925/date-confirmed-for-kilkenny-s-official-twinning-with-italian-town.html|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref> and [[Kilkenny, Minnesota|a town with the same name]] in [[Minnesota]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-03-20 |title=Mayor signs twinning deal with Kilkenny, USA |url=https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/192210/Mayor-signs-twinning-deal-with-Kilkenny.html |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=www.kilkennypeople.ie |language=en}}</ref>